Therapists in Central Park, New York, NY

I am a modern psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist, who works with both adults and couples, to maximize their ability to meet personal life goals and challenges and to grow emotionally. Life can be tough, but that doesn't mean you should give up on having what you want! Psychotherapy is about working on your life goals to have more of the life you want and deserve to have.

Welcome! I am a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice on the Upper West Side. I completed my Ph.D. at Fordham University, and my pre-doctoral internship at the Yale University School of Medicine. I specialize in providing treatments that have been supported by research including cognitive behavioral therapy for mood and anxiety disorders, dialectical behavior therapy for emotion dysregulation/borderline personality disorder, and relapse prevention/motivational interviewing for substance abuse. In addition to my private practice, I work as a supervising psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Welcome. I'm here to help and offer a compassionate, strength-based, and solution-focused approach. I specialize in treating ADHD, anxiety disorders, encopresis, and enuresis using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). I’ll help you change unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns. I am available to teach you strategies to effectively manage your symptoms and address executive functioning weaknesses. My genuine passion and my creative approach have proven effective in engaging children and adults in therapy. I can help you develop skills that will foster a more harmonious home environment and promote lasting, positive change.

Noam Schneck, PhD, is a New York State licensed clinical psychologist and an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Schneck provides psychological treatments utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, insight oriented therapy and mindfulness approaches within the context of a warm and caring relationship. His research work investigates the processes by which unwanted and painful thoughts come to mind and influence behavior and life functioning. He has a wide array of experience treating children, pre-adolescents, teenagers and adults.

Dr. Amy Zimet (she/her) is a compassionate and caring psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is very responsive to all her patients and is accessible via phone or video sessions at flexible hours. Dr. Zimet specializes in the long-term treatment of adult disorders impacting individuals, couples, and families. She is an expert in the management of character pathology, anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and polydrug dependence. Her extensive clinical and research background has provided her with broad-based experience to support and treat her patients.

I collaborate with my clients to help them find a better understanding of themselves. The process may include exploring how they have arrived at where they find themselves in life; how patterns in their relationships with the important people in their lives have developed and are sustained; how emotions and emotion-laden expectations may limit possibilities; how the therapeutic relationship can provide support, insight, improve coping skills and relationships with others, expand opportunities, improve performance, and increase satisfaction.

If you are feeling anxious or depressed, stuck on thoughts that just won't go away, or battling an overwhelming impulse, I am here to help. As a therapist, I specialize in the treatment of anxiety and its related disorders by targeting your thoughts and their associated consequences on your feelings and behaviors. I am here to listen to your story in a supportive, non-judgmental environment, with the ultimate goal of finding much-needed relief from what is troubling you.

Welcome. I would like to help you take the next step to improve the quality of your life. This might be the next step from a position where you feel locked in self-defeating patterns, the next step in facing something from your past, or the next step in addressing feelings and moods that diminish your engagement with life. The process of taking the next step itself can be concerning -- each part, from contemplation to action, deserves care and attention. I hope you will allow me to help you take this courageous next step.

I offer both neuropsychological testing services, as well as individual therapy services for a range of conditions. Testing is for both children and adults; therapy services are offered to persons age 18 and up.

As a dynamic, interactive, solution-focused therapist, my approach is to provide support and practical feedback to clients, as well as assisting them in resolving current problems and long-standing dysfunctional patterns. With sensitivity and compassion, my clients are helped to find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues.

Suffering is an integral part of life, the same way manure is an integral part of the farmer's life. As a wise farmer learns to use manure as a fertilizer, I can assist you in understanding and using your suffering wisely, and learning to profit from it. I am silent when need be, yet I am also very willing to respond to your questions and to dialogue with you in a very direct way when necessary.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"~ Emerson. It is often our own insecurities that prevent us from achieving our optimal potential. I believe we all have an inherent capacity for change and growth. Within the collaborative therapeutic space, clients can begin their journey of self-discovery and emotional healing as they work to overcome personal obstacles. My practice is demographically diverse with treatment tailored to the uniqueness of the individual and sensitive to issues of culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation/identity, disability, religion/spirituality, socioeconomic status and presenting condition.

Many children and adults are immersed in struggling to cope with post covid reactions. The isolation of lockdown and COVID itself has caused lingering symptoms of depression, anxiety, fatigue and ambivalence about re-engaging with others and with activities that are life affirming. To compound matters we are witnessing the slaughter of innocent human beings at the mercy of a mass murderer. Don't delay in seeking help if you are struggling to make sense of your life. Bring your partner, family or your friend group for a session. You and those you bring might be surprised by the therapeutic benefit of even one meeting.

Serving adolescents/teens, adults and couples in CA and NY, in person sessions available in NYC. I work from an integrative framework which I adapt based on each individuals specific challenges, goals, personality and past efforts towards healing and growth. My work is guided by a belief that people have an innate drive towards happiness and an intuitive, unconscious sense of how to bring this to fruition. This inner wisdom can often be stifled and suppressed by various aspects of ones experience, upbringing and psycho-neurological makeup.

You don't have to live in pain and depression. Working together, you and I can create mutually understood meanings tol help you get past "stuck places." Investigating your past while paying close attention to feelings in the present moment allows you to gain new personal insight. It also facilitates therapeutic healing and growth.

I work with artists, couples, people with chronic illness, and young adults with separation and intimacy issues, seeking to find who they are. We consider how "old issues" sometimes interfere in our moving forward. I help individuals pick good partners and feel safe letting someone get close to them. I also help them to set appropriate boundaries with their parents and others. I reduce my fees to what is affordable for the client. I enjoy working with couples and understand cultural differences, having a Ph.D. In Russian, and lived in Russia and France, and worked with Asians, Latinos, Russians, Mormons, and Orthodox Jews.

I believe that whatever most troubles you, it cannot define you psychologically, nor does it lessen the whole of your identity. Therefore, I regard all aspects of your past, your present and your inner life as a series of promising pathways. Through them we can seek a fuller understanding of your living reality, and we can discover and develop key resources for resolving your dilemmas. Throughout our work together my overall perspective on you, the client, is of your distinct, unique connection to the common ground of our human experience: that shared territory in which we all sometimes struggle, and in which I fully include myself.

If you’re looking for help, there is a good chance that you've felt overwhelmed by your thoughts and feelings, or felt lost in your relationships or life itself. I collaborate with each individual and couple, helping them feel understood and seen, rather than jumping to any quick-fix solutions. Using principles and skills drawn from both skills based and compassion focused approaches, I strive to help clients learn more about their underlying values, sense of self, and patterns that have played out in their lives. Through this process, we work collaboratively to develop the skills and insight to move towards fulfillment and purpose.

Uncovering deep feelings and internalized anxiety can better help one to understand the motivations for problematic behaviors or interruptions to ones well being. In the search for more balanced personal and professional lives and long term harmony and self esteem, we will work together to uncover those deeper feelings and impulses in a safe, non judgmental space.